USA Today to Use BN and Sony Sales Data

USA Today will now incorporate Barnes and Noble’s and Sony’s eBook sales in its Thursday bestsellers list. The paper has included Amazon sales data since July 2009. [...]

Bestseller Price Comparisons

Scott at The Lewis Four dishes out his weekly price comparison of New York Times Bestsellers. Take a gander at the fiction and non-fiction lists and how the prices stack up at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo [...]

Weekly NYT Bestsellers Price Comparison

Scott at The Lewis Four has updated the weekly New York Times bestsellers’ list. Scott compares prices at four different eBook vendors: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Sony. Scott covers both the non-fiction and fiction comparisons for [...]

"Read an E-Book Week" Contests

Scott at The Lewis Four will be giving away a $15 gift card for the Sony eBookstore or Amazon’s Kindle store. If you have a nook, which is pretty likely since you’re at nookverse, you’ll want to grab the Sony bucks. You can then use Adobe Digital Editions to authorize, then transfer to your nook.

In order [...]

NYT Bestseller Price Comparisons at The Lewis Four

One last update today. Scott at The Lewis Four has posted his weekly New York Times Fiction and Non-fiction Bestsellers eBookstore price comparison (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Sony).

Okay, that’s it for me for today. Have a [...]

The Amazon 70 and the SDK

Science fiction author Charles Stross talks about the Google Book Settlement, why Amazon’s recent announcement of the $9.99 per eBook cap and 70% to publishers plan hurts authors, and other twenty-first century monetization issues that writers face.

And what about the Amazon 70 deal?

Beginning on June 30, 2010, publishers and self-pubbed authors enrolled in the “70 percent [...]

Weekly Bestseller Comparison

Scott over at The Lewis Four has posted his weekly New York Times Fiction and Non-Fiction Bestsellers list price comparison. He includes Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Sony [...]

Instant Gratification

Too many eReaders on the market? Will eReaders with integrated software systems give everyone else a good thrashing?

That’s pretty much the consensus at jkOntheRun and at eWeek.

People seek names they recognize and instant gratification. They want simplicity. These are no-brainers. What becomes more interesting is how many “licenses” eBook storefronts permit. Barnes and Noble have partnered [...]

NYT Bestsellers Price Comparison

Scott at The Lewis Four shares his weekly New York Times Bestseller List price comparison charts for the week. Scott shops for the top non-fiction and fiction books of the week at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Sony. This is helpful when looking at Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of your nook or [...]

Doctorow on Amazon's EULA

Cory Doctorow discusses Amazon’s digital EULA (End User License Agreement) and the “license” versus “own” status of eBooks. He also discloses the problems he had with Amazon when attempting to modify the licensing agreement of the
Makers

audiobook:

When I tried to negotiate the distribution of the Random House Audio edition of my novel Makers through Amazon’s Audible [...]

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